Pre-registration Pharmacy Technician
The closing date is 24 September 2025
Gain the qualifications you need to kick-start a career in pharmacy, by joining our outstanding pharmacy team!
See the 'Pharmacy Career Progression' document below to learn just how far a career in Pharmacy could take you!
The Pharmacy Department is looking to recruit enthusiastic Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians to join us in the delivery of excellent hospital pharmacy services.
This is a great opportunity to join our friendly, committed team and gain the qualification required to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician. As the successful candidate you will need to be self-motivated, keen to gain new skills and have a keen sense of professionalism.
As the successful candidate, you will work in a variety of pharmacy technical roles to support the undertaking of the Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians.
Main duties of the job
Please note, whilst training the below duties and responsibilities will be carried out with appropriate support and supervision.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
To carry out dispensing of drugs (including controlled drugs), medicated dressings, enteral feeds, in-patients and A&E prescriptions and clinical trial prescriptions.
To perform a final accuracy check of dispensed items.
To give routine clinical and pharmaceutical advice to healthcare staff if confident to do so and within the knowledge limitations of the grade.
To counsel patients as appropriate in order to ensure the safe and effective use and storage of their medicines.
To liaise with ward pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and ward staff in determining appropriate pharmaceuticals stock levels, for the production and updating of ward-stock lists and to assist in the provision of advice to ward staff on the storage and handling of pharmaceuticals.
To check, maintain and replenish the out of hours drug cupboard and resuscitation cupboard.
To participate in the topping-up service for wards/departments in the hospital and outside units as required.
To participate in stock replenishment procedures in all areas of the pharmacy.
To monitor the continued suitability of pharmaceutical stock on wards and in departments and to arrange the appropriate removal/destruction in accordance with environmental regulations.
To monitor and record drug storage temperatures within the Pharmacy and on wards/departments during the top-up and to alert section managers of any discrepancies.
Ensure the security of the pharmacy department and stores areas at all times during working hours and at the end of the working day by maintaining responsibility for keys and swipe access cards and by the setting of alarms as necessary.
To carry out accurate entry of data into the Pharmacy computer system.
To assist in the maintenance of the Controlled Drugs Register and to carry out regular stock level checks of Controlled Drugs in line with legal responsibilities.
To carry out aseptic preparation following completion of the in-house aseptic training programme.
To participate in the ward-based Medicines Management service when appropriate and under the supervision of a Medicines Management Technician.
To undertake disposal of cytotoxic drug waste in accordance with COSHH regulations.
To assist in the individual and group training of pharmacy assistants (ATOs), senior ATOs, Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technicians and Pre-Registration Pharmacist students.
To assist section managers in the orientation, induction and training of pharmacy staff new to those sections, and to contribute to the training of the Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technicians.
To contribute ideas for improving cost-effectiveness and to assist in their implementation where agreed.
To participate in the weekend and Bank Holiday rota including handling of boxes of intravenous fluids and other bulk products.
To process cash and cheque transactions for over the counter sales of medicines and for private prescriptions, as required.
To undertake other duties at the base hospital and outside units as required by the Pharmacy Operations Lead, in accordance with this grade of post.
RELATIONSHIPS :
Managed by the section manager to which allocated.
Supervises pharmacy assistants (ATOs) and senior ATOs in the section of work to which allocated.
Works and co-operates with all pharmacy and healthcare staff in the provision of services
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 4 GCSE's Grade C/4 or above including Maths, English and Science (or equivalent)
Experience
* Hospital Pharmacy experience.
Skills/Knowledge
* Basic computer skills
* Good communication skills (written and oral.)
* Knowledge of all rotational technician roles including dispensary and ward-based duties
* Supervisory skills
Personal Qualities
* Motivated
* Reliable
* Good personal presentation
* Flexible
* Able to use initiative
* Able to deal with angry/upset/ill patients
* Able to create a rapport
Other
* Able to participate in weekend & Bank holiday working. Committed to CPD Physically fit and able to stand/sit for long periods. Capable of occasional moderate lifting (<13kg)
* Car driver with use of motorised transport
* Able to use a VDU
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Depending on experience £19,239 - 70% Band 4 per annum
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